Incoming Resources
- The Mississippi and the making of a nation, from the Louisiana Purchase to today, Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley ; photographs by Sam Abell
- The pioneers, the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west, by David McCullough
- Western Great Lakes, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, by Thomas G. Aylesworth, Virginia L. Aylesworth. --
- Explore the Midwest, by Kristine Spanier, MLIS
- That dark and bloody river, chronicles of the Ohio River Valley, Allan W. Eckert
- The Mississippi River, by Katie Marsico
- Eastern Great Lakes, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, by Thomas G. Aylesworth, Virginia L. Aylesworth